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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72

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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72	comment	An Alternate History timeline written by user "Drew" on the site AlternateHistory.com. The title is obviously a reference to the famous Hunter S. Thompson work Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, and concerns the same events... with a twist. It can be read here.In Real Life ("Our Timeline", OTL) the 1972 American presidential election pitted incumbent Republican Richard Nixon against Democrat George McGovern. McGovern was the candidate of the radical anti-Vietnam war far left, and at a time when Nixon's policies seemed to be turning the Vietnam situation around, he failed to woo moderates and the result was a landslide for Nixon. Then came Watergate and everything that ensued with that. But, what if...?In Fear, Loathing and Gumbo John Julian McKeithen, a former governor of Louisiana, decides to stand for the Democratic nomination. He's a more moderate figure than McGovern and can appeal to a wider audience, and crucially also comes from a political background that has acquainted him quite as much with dirty tricks as Nixon. He wins the candidacy.Now it's worth pointing out that there are a lot of timelines out there in which that would be that: McKeithen, the Mary Sue alternative candidate, would trounce Nixon and then proceed to have an Alternate History Wank presidency in which all the mistakes that happened in OTL are avoided.Fear, Loathing and Gumbo is not like that.The full story will not be given here due to the timeline turning on shocking twists, but thanks to McGovern refusing to exit the race and standing as a "Peace" candidate, as well as George Wallace staying in the race, the result is that no one wins the Electoral College vote. And then it gets worse. And worse. And worse... The story ends in 1981, followed by a Sequel Series note which we will not mention by name as the title is a massive spoiler, bringing the woes to The '80s. And it very much lives up to its title. It can be read here. Sadly, a Dead Fic, as of March 2021.Be wary of spoilers below as the timeline contains some shocking twists.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: A variation. James Gavin initially balked at the idea of being thrown into the White House through procedural means, but after being paraded before Smug Snake Agnew, as well the deteriorating foreign situation, Gavin agrees to become the president after Agnew is impeached.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_137f2d7	comment	Scarily enough, despite almost being a Card-Carrying Villain far past the Moral Event Horizon, even President Rumsfeld is creeped out by the far-right Christian fanatic he has employed in his administration: Tim LaHaye, the author of the Left Behind series. However, he eventually warms up to LaHaye and has him replace Cheney as Chief of Staff.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: In his zeal to create a truly free market, Rumsfeld removes almost every environmental regulation, and actively encourages coal pollution and climate change. He even pushes for environmentalism to become recognised as a mental illness. The conflicts in Southern Africa see so many dirty bombs and chemical weapons detonated that whole areas become uninhabitable wastelands. The Christian Values Party uses nukes with reckless abandon. Their attempts to stop Cuba from taking Florida and crush pockets of resistance have left large areas of the country severely irradiated.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Israelis committing ethnic cleansing in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories is reminiscent of Serbian war crimes during the Bosnian War. The "Liberty Batalions". See the main page under "A Nazi by Any Other Name" and "Right-Wing Militia Fanatic" for specifics.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: People and things that have recently appeared in the news often get to make appearances in the timeline. Weirdly, this also sometimes happens in reverse: Drew was writing about civil wars in Syria and Mali over a year before suspiciously similar wars actually broke out in Real Life.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: The Lesser Mao does anything to maintain power, including massive purges that kill millions, and even dropping an atomic bomb on a rebelling city. He cares about nobody except himself, believes himself to be smarter than everyone around him, regularly uses drugs near the end of his rule, turns his country into a Khmer Rouge-style hellhole, and turns China into a massive producer of heroin largely to spite the West and for his own monetary gain. Donald Rumsfeld obviously doesn't care about ruining the environment, and forcing working people to work for starvation wages if he can create a "free" economy. Or locking up his own allies if they don't agree with his whim. And he doesn't care about giving soldiers substandard equipment and killing them if he can save money.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: In an interview with a witness to the destruction of the Capitol Building, he muses that the people the United States should have risen up, but after the horrific realities of Rumsfeld's terms in office, most were simply too jaded and desensitized to care anymore. Only in the libertarian west and northeast did the rebellions take place.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1ba750d8	comment	The Gulag: The Lesser Mao has loads of them, some of which are assigned to farm opium and make heroin from it.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: The Lesser Mao engages in these constantly, to the point where his underlings actively work not to be promoted so as to be less tempting targets. Rumsfeld purges the military after the failed coup attempt, although he fails to be rid of all his enemies there.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The TRW corporation churns out low quality propaganda films and advertisements that are pro-Rumsfeld.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1ee33a59	comment	The Sequel Series has jihadists establishing an Islamic state in Mali. Hmm, sounds familiar...
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Chicago gangster Sam Giancana survives the attempt on his life in 1975 (which killed him in Real Life) and writes a tell-all book with journalist Dan Moldea, in which he dishes on (among other things) the subject of the JFK assassination. As it turns out, Oswald was just a lone nut. A conspiracy between The Mafia and anti-Castro Cuban exiles tried three times to kill him, but all of them failed, and Oswald's attempt, which ultimately did get him, had nothing to do with their conspiracy. However, Giancana does speculate that another conspiracy wanted JFK dead, and that they had deliberately foiled the Mafia's efforts in order to kill him themselves. He also says that the Mafia wanted to kill Bobby Kennedy as well, but Sirhan Sirhan beat them to it.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: This timeline just gets bleaker and bleaker every update, and scarce few parts of the world are in decent shape as it is, but here are a few of the most badly hit countries. China is the worst hit, with the Lesser Mao turning the country into a giant Pol Pot style killing field in the worst mass murder in history, including launching nuclear attacks on his own people. Since then, it has crumbled into utter anarchy with no sign of recovery. South Africa under Apartheid is a fully fledged Neo Nazi state in all but name, and wields an arsenal of WMDs including dirty bombs which it hurls at its neighbours with wild abandon and is fully protected by President Rumsfeld as a "bastion of freedom" due to the increasing insanity of his anti-communist paranoia. India is quickly deteriorating under the authoritarian rule of Sanjay Gandhi, launching a brutal war with Pakistan (with both sides using chemical weapons) and persecuting several of India's religious and ethnic minorities, leading to increasingly large numbers of revolts and terrorist attacks. The Middle East has slowly crumbled into a war-torn badland, with Saudi Arabia's monarchy getting overthrown and temporarily getting replaced by religious fundamentalists before getting invaded by Iraq. After the Iraqi pullout, Saudi Arabia descends into a civil war between Iraqi-backed secularists and jihadists. Qatar is taken over by jihadists. The remaining Gulf States and Jordan are desperately trying to hold back fundamentalist insurgents. Israel is increasing its power and territory using military force and ethnic cleansing, and is implied to be a dictatorship. Egypt has fallen into a civil war between secularists and fundamentalists. Iraq and Iran (the latter of which is a military dictatorship) are competing for power in the region by backing their preferred faction. It's safe to say that the region is ruined for the next several decades, at the least. Britain is even worse hit by The Troubles with many more deaths, including the assassination of Queen Elizabeth, and while it momentarily dies down, it flares up even worse in the 1980s due to a new "Loyalist" terrorist group launching attacks on the British mainland to punish any attempt to end the bloodshed and again this is directly aided by Rumsfeld in order to "punish" Britain for voting in a Labour Government. America's economy is brutalized by an even worse inflation and oil crisis, and Lesser Mao's heroin makes the War on Drugs even more brutal, with whole cities becoming war zones. Then in the 1980s, it is dragged further and further towards fully fledged authoritarian police state under Rumsfeld, complete with the murder and internment of any and all critics, mass production of propaganda movies to smear the president's enemies, and all kinds of far right and Christian fundamentalist fanatics employed and positions adopted by the administration. All while its economy steadily falls apart. Rumsfeld and Cheney even privately admit they plan to remove each constitutional right save the right to bear arms (in order to keep the right wing happy). By 1990, much of the country has been taken over by a theocracy ruled by Douglas Coe. Many cities have been nuked by Coe, and whole states have broken off. However, they are a few bright spots: The Soviet Union is steadily adopting OTL China-style reforms and is drawing Western Europe into its orbit with ease given the increasingly psychotic and vindictive Rumsfeld. While it is still an authoritarian regime, it does seem to have a good chance of emerging from the 1980s as a freer and more prosperous country than America does. While still under strong military control, most of East Asia has remained stable. Japan has built up a much stronger military presence of their own, while Taiwan has retaken a good portion of mainland China. Both countries have also been working on a joint nuclear program, while Vietnam, due to an American victory, has become a stable and prosperous country. Mexico under CuauhtÃ©moc CÃ¡rdenas manages to reform itself to the point that it becomes a prosperous nation and major power in its own right.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_2206fd8c	comment	Fallen States of America: America has become a corporate-fascist state under Rumsfeld, with widespread poverty, terrible working conditions for Americans, a deteriorating environment and economy, the elimination of almost all forms of social services, several states seceding or going against the government, an authoritarian police state with its own Black Shirts, and a return to racial discrimination in some parts of the country. Then things get even worse after Rumsfeld's impeachment, with the Christian Values party assuming complete control over the country, destroying the congress, and imposing their fundamentalist rhetoric onto society, going so far as to place the 10 commandments into a new article of the constitution. The resulting civil war goes horribly, with a bouncing-back Cuba invading Florida only to be repelled with nuclear weapons which turn central Florida into a nuclear wasteland as well as several other hot spots of resistance such as Philadelphia. Furthermore Alaska, Texas, Oregon and Washington secede from the Union with Oregon joining with California to form the Pacific Free Republic while Washington opts to join with Canada, while Alaska and Texas choose independence. Both PFR and Canada in turn providing weapons and support to various rebel factions across the Midwest and in the Libertarian dominated Mountain West against the CV's theocratic rule, which has re-branded the USA into the Christian States of America, while the secessionist New England and New York states continue to call themselves "United States of America" and resist the CSA's rule under Richard Nixon's leadership. Here's a map if you're curious.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Cheney, Clinton, and Carter are united in resisting Rumsfeld, but they don't exactly get along, and Cheney has ulterior motives of his own. Rumsfeld divides opposition groups using this method as a way of holding on to power, primarily focused on driving a wedge between the Democrats and We The People.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Briefly mentioned in the timeline and recently brought up in the discussion was a piece of legislation introduced with the intent to criminalise homosexuality. The author has suggested that it might be important in the future. The killer of Kelsey Grammer's sister is killed in a police shoot-out, instead of being arrested and brought to trial. In frustration at justice denied, Grammer abandons acting and studies law, eventually becoming a junior District Attorney. Considering that, in the U.S. at least, the DA's office is often a first step to higher political office...
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: The Lesser Mao, imagining himself as a new Emperor Qin Shi Huang, surrounds himself with the Terracotta Army statues.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_258a5cfe	comment	Different World, Different Movies: The Academy Awards are periodically referred to, with movies gradually becoming more and more different as the years go by, often reflective of the political climate at the time. Especially since a good portion of the movies being churned out by Hollywood are simply propaganda pieces created by the Rumsfeld administration. Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek: Phase II. George Lucas dies in a car accident, so Star Wars is instead an animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi. According to Drew, Oliver Stone has ample material for a film called Agnew. All in the Family has a different arc focused on the increased poverty in the United States, with Archie losing his job and watching the America he knew erode away, while Mike is forced to work one or two jobs well below his skill level just to support his family. This leads to fewer social justice disputes between the two. Back to the Future, aside from a few minor differences (Doc's time machine is made from a Chevrolet Camaro, the terrorists who attack him and Marty are South African rather than Libyan, Biff and George both work at a local phone company), is pretty much the same, but with a very different ending. George gets his hands on a DynaTAC 8000x mobile phone from the time machine and the timeline's communication industry advances rapidly. By the time Marty returns to 1985, the McFlys are rich and happy, while Biff is serving time in federal prison. However, while George and Loraine both remember Marty from 1955, they state that they only have two children and Marty is not one of them. This ending is meant as a dig at the Rumsfeld administration's historical revisionism. The film adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, while still directed by Michael Radford, is rather different. Instead of the quasi-Stalinist society it was in the book, Oceania is an openly fascist totalitarian corporatocracy, with big brother serving as a symbol of the enforcers. Winston Smith still has his job at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history for the regime. The Arc Words "D4H1R" are also scattered throughout the film, usually associated with the regime. It's easy to decode it was DHR-41: Donald Henry Rumsfeld, the 41st president of the United States. The James Bond series begins diverging from our own in the late '70s, a reflection of the shifting state of geopolitics. The first film discussed is an adaptation of Colonel Sun starring Michael Billington as Bond, which gets put into production to cash in on the public's fear of, and fascination with, the increasingly howling-mad People's Republic of China under the Lesser Mao — who, upon hearing about the film, goes out of his way to sabotage its production. Despite his efforts, though, it is still released in 1980. The next film, originally meant to be You Only Live Twice, fell into Development Hell for six years due to the disintegration of NATO; the UK and Western Europe's thawing relations with the USSR and very cold relations with the US effectively rendered the plot obsolete. This film, released in 1987 as DeadEye, saw the role of Bond recast with Ray Lonnen while Clint Eastwood (who, like many other American celebrities and political figures, had been essentially exiled to Britain due to his politics) played the villain, the American general Morgan Buckner. Buckner's Evil Plan, explicitly stated to have the approval of the US President (who Eastwood played the role as a deliberate parody of), is to use microwave pulse satellites to launch false-flag attacks on the UK and the USSR, starting a war between the two nations that would end with the US swooping in to rebuild Europe in its image. The film is a hit in Europe and Asia, and while it's never officially released in the US, it still becomes an underground Cult Classic there. According to Roger Ebert, the fourth Dirty Harry movie starred "A washed up old quarterback who couldn't act," because Clint Eastwood was sick and tired of creating racist propaganda. The American cut of The Coca-Cola Kid features the protagonist getting the local eccentric committed to a psychiatric institution and claiming his current assistant is a Communist spy. Wall Street and Pale Rider are also radically different.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_2991089a	comment	Oppressive States of America: The US fell into this rapidly under Rumsfeld, with rampant abuses of Presidential authority used to crush dissent by manipulating the media and murdering (James Gavin) or kidnapping/"disappearing" (George Carlin, Barry Goldwater, Roger Ebert) people who dissent against Rumsfeld. In addition, censorship is ramped up dramatically, and Penthouse and the nascent civilian Internet are shut down in the name of "national security".
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: A fair few. George W. Bush becoming a science fiction actor after his release by the North Vietnamese is probably a reference to how Enterprise`s Trip Tucker was described as "George W. Bush in Space". The allusion then comes full circle when the ITTL version of Star Trek: The Motion Picture comes out, with Dubya cast as helmsman Will Decker. The Sequel Series has jihadists establishing an Islamic state in Mali. Hmm, sounds familiar... PJO atrocities in North-west Africa are very reminiscent of Boko Haram atrocities in Nigeria. The World Trade Center is hit by an airplane. Except it's an accident: AerolÃneas Argentinas Flight 342, a Boeing 707, crashes into the North Tower on February 20, 1981 while approaching JFK Airport; the plane was flying too low, and it was nighttime with thick fog. The tower burns, but does not collapse. This incident nearly happened in Real Life.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_2bdb6280	comment	The Big Rotten Apple: Thanks to the worse economy, New York City goes bankrupt in 1975 and has its finances taken over by the federal government, on top of all the other problems that it faced in The '70s. In the Sequel Series, it has Spiro Agnew as its mayor. Sleep tight, New York. Later, he becomes the 54th governor of the state of New York.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Trent Lott, the Mississippi representative who becomes Speaker of the House, is described repeatedly as being a self-serving opportunist. It's all but stated he blocked Governor Richard Lamm's nomination as a caretaker Vice President just so he could ascend to the presidency if the ailing Wallace either died or was impeached over illegal arms dealing in Central America. When Rumsfeld is elected, he goes along with his insane policies, and supports the nomination of the fundamentalist Jeremiah Denton as Vice President, just so the Christian Values party doesn't threaten the Republican majority in the House. When the CV launches a purge of Rumsfeld's supporters, he narrowly avoids getting executed and is sentenced to hard labor.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_31e92640	comment	Japan Takes Over the World: Japan appears to be coming closer to this than in OTL. The worse 1970s economy means that Japan avoids the economic bubble of the 1980s, and increasingly nationalistic political forces take control of Japan, encouraging the creation of a strong military (including a nuclear bomb).
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_34dd5f3	comment	La RÃ©sistance: One shows up against President Rumsfeld, led by Jimmy Carter, Ron Dellums, and Bill Clinton. Other members include Bill Gates, the mastermind behind Liberty Spark. California Governor Pete McCloskey resists Rumsfeldia by getting California to succeed from the Union. Ted Turner and Gene Roddenberry also join the stand against Rumsfeld.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Happens to President Wallace in Iran, as a result of his failed attempt to examine Iranian politics under the Shah through the lens of his background in Southern Dixiecrat politics.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_3696f538	comment	President Rumsfeld suffers from this badly. In his eyes, anyone who doesn't conform to his views is a Dirty Communist and a threat to America who must be gotten rid of. Not even loyal conservatives like Barry Goldwater or George H.W. Bush are exempt.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Jack Edwards and Dick Cheney. The former got tired of Rumsfeld's anarcho-capitalist and authoritarian policies. The latter was horrified he was recruiting Christian fundamentalists.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: When the CV takes power, Alabama under Wallace refuses to follow their policies, causing the federal government to place the state under siege. The flash-forward map in "Rummyhorror" shows Alabama firmly under the control of the Christian States of America, so it's safe to say that Wallace lost.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	An in-universe example happens in the historical films produced by Hollywood at Rumsfeld's direction. These films portray historical enemies of America as being far worse than they actually were, while portraying the Americans as [[Historical Hero Upgrade completely noble and incorruptible.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: Implied with the helicopter crash that kills President Robertson-it's suggested that Douglas Coe was frustrated that Robertson wasn't more aggressive in going after the CV administration's enemies and had him killed to make way for someone more pliable.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Given by George Wallace, of all people, to Spiro Agnew on the latter's show.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Incoming as of the April 13th update, with California passing an instrument of secession, complete with Declaration of Independence-style condemnations of Rumsfeldia's crimes. All that remains is a referendum, which has passed as of the first 2015 updates. After Rumsfeld impeaches all resistance on the Supreme Court, California goes straight for independence. Hawaii quickly follows, and even becomes a constitutional monarchy under the old Hawaiian throne. Though still officially part of the US, Libertarian Idaho, Wallace's Alabama, and Florida are all going askew of the federal government. Later on, the New England and New York governors join an open nullification compact. After the Christian Value's party takes power, Alaska, Texas, Oregon, and Washington all secede as well. The United Nations also seize control of America's overseas territories as Trusteeships.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_48218d3d	comment	Neutrality Backlash: Kim Il Sung trying to play both China and Soviet Russia during their conflict results in his regime being overthrown in a Soviet back coup, his family being purged, and himself being shuttled off to a detention camp. Ryzhkov uses the US invasion of Cuba in order to identify and eliminate not his open political opponents, but those who remain silent and intend to only join the side that wins. He explains to Putin that those who name themselves your enemy can be dealt with at leisure, but opportunists are the real danger.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4921aad7	comment	Expanded States of America: Under Rumsfeld, California is to be partitioned into two states, with the northernmost regions becoming the state of Jefferson. No doubt this is to secure more republican votes for himself. Unfortunately for him, the plan seems to fall apart once California declares independence in 1985.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4c554daf	comment	President Rumsfeld has become a President Evil, as has President Robertson — until he dies in a highly suspicious helicopter crash, turning him into President Target. His successor Steven Symms is President Puppet, being a figurehead while Douglas Coe wields the real power.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: George Wallace invokes this during his presidential campaign, claiming to have abandoned his segregationist ways.note The Wallace of OTL did in fact abandon his segregationist past. As president, he goes further, choosing his old nemesis Nicholas Katzenbach as his vice president, appointing Ron Dellums to his cabinet, and giving MLK a posthumous Medal of Honor. After seeing Rumsfeld destroy the nation, he realizes his own mediocrity opened the door, and returns to his old job as governor of Alabama to save it from Rumsfeldia.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Agnew shows signs of supreme overconfidence from the very moment he gains prominence by "electing" himself. When he meets with Nixon just before taking office as acting President, he inappropriately calls him "Dick" (a nickname Nixon reserved for only close friends), announces that he's taking only one advisor in Donald Rumsfeld (despite Nixon's warnings that his administration will be dominated by Rumsfeld's agenda), and says that if Russia and China are duking it out, America'll have no trouble focusing on the NVA — maybe, he hopes, China will even have an uprising and go democratic if they lose. Nixon, a Realpolitik man to the core, is shaken and terrified. (This is Truth in Television; despite Agnew's public overtures of intellectualism, fostered by William Safire's flowery speechwriting, he was privately considered very inept in both domestic and -- especially -- foreign matters, and Nixon had frozen him out from almost all direct decision-making by 1970.) During a later conversation with George H.W. Bush where Agnew discusses his ambitions in greater detail, a horrified Bush realizes just how out of his depth he is; his entire frame of reference for governing is the shady, sometimes outright crooked backroom deals that happen at the local or state level — in other words, one man runs everything, never backs down or compromises, and throws his weight around until the other guy breaks. Combined with his embrace of "Great Man" ideology and enthusiasm for Teddy Roosevelt-style imperialist policing, it makes nuclear war almost inevitable. Rumsfeld grows into this by the late 1980s. He even thinks that he can rip apart the federal government, not realizing that the Christian Values people he's employed are secretly plotting against him. Trent Lott. See above.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: The Lesser Mao, to an even greater degree than his predecessor. Viewing himself as a second Qin Shi Huangdi is just the start.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Cheney was this for Rumsfeld. After Cheney defects to the resistance, Timothy LaHaye replaces him.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Several in-universe examples: The "Democrat Killer" claims that Abraham Lincoln was a Democratic mole in the Republican Party because he was responsible for the end of slavery in America, ignoring the fact that the Democrats of the time were largely pro-slavery. Considering who this is, that's probably intentional. Under President Rumsfeld, many Hollywood studios produce right-wing propaganda films that rewrite history to further the President's agenda. These films include: Stand for Destiny, a film about the Mexican-American War that portrays the Mexicans welcoming American soldiers as liberators and claims that then-President James K. Polk was a "pro-freedom Republican in the tradition of Lincoln" (he was actually a Democrat, the Republican Party did not exist yet, and Lincoln was a Whig at the time and opposed the war), among many other inaccuracies. Justice for Sally, a film about Nat Turner's slave rebellion in 1831 that depicts slavery as pro-freedom and claims that the liberation of the slaves was the theft of property from their rightful owners. The film depicts President Andrew Jackson as a Republican (he was actually a Democrat, and the Republicans did not exist yet) and shows George Washington and Thomas Jefferson as still being alive (in reality they died long before the rebellion), with Washington getting murdered by one of Turner's minions. The film is meant to justify U.S. support for apartheid South Africa. The Progressive Plot, which depicts Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Soviet spy who tried to bring Communism to America. The film claims that FDR faked his paralysis for public sympathy and was later assassinated by Stalin when he turned against him. The Great Settlers' Trek, a John Ford-style Western about the Boer settlers in South Africa. It depicts the opposing African tribes as violent quasi-Communists and the British Empire as oppressive socialists. The film is meant to generate American support for the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Jefferson Conspiracy, a miniseries which claims that Thomas Jefferson conspired with Napoleon to bring the French Revolution's "Communist" terror to America, until he was stopped by Andrew Jackson (described as the first "true Republican"), who defeated Jefferson in the 1804 election (in reality, Jackson was a Democrat and wasn't elected president until 1828). Even the National Archives is forced to rewrite history by the Rumsfeld regime. They release "previously classified" (and obviously forged) documents claiming that the Attack on Pearl Harbor was staged by FDR with Stalin's help, and that Thomas Jefferson was a British spy during the American Revolution.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_567e2f0	comment	No True Scotsman: Both We the People and the Christian Values party employ this trope against anyone within their corner of the political spectrum not agreeing with their views. The former going as far as to call the Democrats part of Rumsfeld's corporate network while the latter use it against any Christian who refuses to subscribe to their fundamentalist rhetoric. President Rumsfeld is the king of this trope however as he has no qualms about calling any Republican going against his anarcho-capitalist stances a communist and going so far as to have them removed from office and committed to a Gulag-esque Bedlam House. Taken up to eleven when the Liberty Legions burn books by Adam Smith for being "anti-capitalist".
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The conflict between the USA and the Soviet Union becomes increasingly this throughout the 1980s. On the one hand we have US President Rumsfeld, whose insane Anarcho-Capitalist policies result in widespread economic disparity, combined with resorting to blatant electoral fraud to be elected twice, rampant abuses of presidential authority, turning Hollywood into a right-wing propaganda machine that vilifies historical figures like FDR and his New Deal as communist plots. Not to mention creating Nazi-esque Liberty Battalions which stage frequent book burnings of any literature that could be seen as critical of his policies, disappearing celebrities and political enemies and alienating all of the USA's allies (resulting in NATO's destruction) with the exception of a very much dictatorial South Africa under the apartheid system, and attempting to make himself president for life by destroying any legislative blocks to him having unlimited terms and preventing anyone else from becoming the Republican presidential candidate creating a de facto dictatorship. Things get so bad that California and Hawaii secede from the Union and people within the US Army attempt a coup. On the other hand we have the USSR Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, who despite being very much an authoritarian dictator showing no signs of turning the Soviet Union into a democracy, leads the Soviet Union in attempts to end the Cold War by offering Western Europe new trade opportunities as well as ending all support for non-peaceful Soviet revolutions and political movements as well as brokering a peace treaty between ROC and South Korea which earns him tons of good publicity. However, it is hinted that he's only doing this to advance his political agenda and attempts to remove what he deems to be potential political enemies within the party, as well as using Nukes in open warfare in Asia which undoes a lot of the aforementioned good publicity, and is increasingly revealing his true colors as a Stalin 2.0.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Despite continuing Cold War brinksmanship, the USA and the Soviet Union join forces to defeat the Bayanouni Islamist regime in Syria, and later collaborate on a nuclear attack on the Lesser Mao's own nuclear programme. North and South Vietnam team up to resist the Lesser Mao's China. In a lesser example, both the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies are united in protest against the abortive coup against the elected Communist-led government in Italy, albeit for different reasons. PJO militants and Shiite militias in Lebanon allied against their mutual enemies there. The disavowed Dick Cheney and the resistance against Rumsfeld, though the latter remain wary of him. While they both plan to betray the other as soon as Rumsfeld is gone, the Christian Evangelicals and Corporations are plotting with each other to overthrow Rumsfeld, albeit for their own, selfish reasons. As of the "Rummyhorror" update, the totalitarian nightmare of the Christian Values theocracy has caused a desperate alliance between the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panther Movement, the Jewish Defence Militia, and possibly other extremist/hate groups as a united resistance.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5a100b90	comment	Puppet King: The unnamed Acting President in "Rummyhorror"-later revealed to by Steven Symms-serves this role for the "Great Teacher", Douglas Coe.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Rumsfeld's corporate backers didn't push for his impeachment because of his tyranny, but because his planned policies would have completely trashed the economy, and are happy to keep his other pro-business policies. Ron Dellums calls them out for this.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Under Rumsfeld, the justice system becomes his means of imprisoning any Democrats who would oppose him.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Rumsfeld.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Jack Edwards and Jeremiah Denton both. It ends badly for both of them. Kelsey Grammer starts out as Rumsfeld's hammer against dissident Democratic politicians. However, he drifts away from Rumsfeld and later the Christian Values when he learns that the government is funneling drug money into the treasury.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Rumsfeld views the lives of American soldiers in Cuba as expendable.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_62434fe2	comment	Nixon, seriously unraveling under the stress of the election debacle and growing more paranoid by the day, mentions to Kissinger while staring into space that they could end the Vietnam War by using a nuke to obliterate the city of Hanoi; later, he orders Defense Sec. Melvin Laird to prepare "at last half a dozen" of their bombs held at Okinawa for B-52 transport, so they can knock out Hanoi and maybe "a Chinese target just across the border" that they can claim was by accident. Kissinger is frightened and tries to gently dissuade Nixon, while Laird is outright terrified and doesn't pass the order on because he later tries to rationalize it as Dick joking or being drunk. In both cases, Nixon quietly drops the matter and doesn't acknowledge it afterward.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: The body armor given during an invasion of Cuba is incredibly useless against enemy bullets, to the point that one soldier just throws it off.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_64536542	type	[Verb] This!
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_64536542	comment	[Verb] This!: "Arrest this, assholes," said by Nicholas Cage to some Liberty Legion officers after fragging them.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_66c725b6	type	Inconsistent Spelling
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_66c725b6	comment	Inconsistent Spelling: The real name of Mao Zedong's nephew (the Lesser Mao) in pinyin is Mao Yuanxin. Due to switching around between Wade-Giles, Pinyin, and other weird romanizations (often from in-universe characters), the name was often corrupted, leading to names like "Mao Yang-jin", "Mao Yang-chin", or "Mao Yang-gin".
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_69cce3dc	type	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_69cce3dc	comment	Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: George H. W. Bush has this internally when he has a conversation with President Spiro Agnew about the latter's belligerent foreign policy. Not only does Agnew show a complete lack of understanding of how the office of President is supposed to work, thinking that he can simply be an executive bully to get what he wants, regardless of the consequences both domestic and abroad, but that Agnew believes the Soviets would never resort to using their nuclear weapons, because they're atheists, and therefore afraid to die. Bush then goes to rally together what Republicans he can to support articles for impeachment, because the ensuing damage to the Republican party would be a far better alternative to World War III.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_6c553873	type	Private Military Contractors
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_6c553873	comment	Private Military Contractors: President Rumsfeld's free-market rhetoric goes so far as a desire to privatize the US military and replace it with these. The increasing privatization of the Armed forces causes one of the worst military disasters in US history, with the US barely able to get a beachhead on Cuba.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: The "Democrat Killer's" grievances against the Democratic Party includes the granting of civil rights to blacks by LBJ. President Rumsfeld compares homosexuals to pedophiles in his speeches, and during a live interview suggests that the mentally ill should be treated like criminals. Magnus Malan of South Africa implements racist policies against blacks (worse than in real life) and even non-Afrikaner whites, of which the former are on the verge of being murdered in a genocide. At one point, he imprisons Rhodesian refugees in concentration camps, even when the British government is begging for their release. The Christian Values administration oppresses anyone who isn't a white, heterosexual Christian.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: One stalks Washington, DC and targets Democratic politicians.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: President Agnew is an alloy of President Jerkass and President Lunatic. President Gavin is closest to President Personable, while President Wallace is a President Schemer. President Rumsfeld has become a President Evil, as has President Robertson — until he dies in a highly suspicious helicopter crash, turning him into President Target. His successor Steven Symms is President Puppet, being a figurehead while Douglas Coe wields the real power. President Denton, who was expected to be President Lunatic because of his fundamentalist ties, chooses to be President Personable, and tries to rebuild the political system and restore confidence.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: Happens to mainland China after the fall of the Lesser Mao. It's also implied that this will happen to India sometime before 2000, but the timeline has not reached that point yet. In 1985, California has decided to secede in response to Rumsfeld's tyranny, to which a furious Cheney is advocating a Cuban-style blockade coupled with a Berlin-style wall.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: Rumsfeld's America is one of the harshest versions of a type 2 in literature.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Roger Ebert gives a blistering one to the movie industry for producing Pro-Rumsfeldian, right-wing propaganda. He's fired by the Chicago Sun-Times, and committed to a Bedlam House. Bill Clinton gives one to Trent Lott for allowing a Christian Values wingnut to become vice-president.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Hua Guofeng, one of the opponents of the Cultural Revolution, is beheaded in front of the Great Hall, as a form of intimidation by the Lesser Mao. Mobutu loses his head after being overthrown by generals backed by the French.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Quite a few soldiers in the invasion of Cuba decide to shoot their Liberty Battalion officers and defect after the latter execute wounded soldiers as a cost-cutting measure.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: Brezhnev, who has access to a wealth of perfect intel on American activities supplied by Ambassador Dobrynin, never comes to the right conclusions because he either ignorantly assumes he knows everything about what's going on, or, being a lifetime Politburo member, misinterprets it as Soviet-style political maneuvering — he sees the 1972 election snafu, for example, as purposefully orchestrated by Nixon to expose disloyal Republicans and "purge" them, unaware that American politics doesn't have purges (not yet, anyway). After Agnew's self-appointment, he becomes convinced that Agnew is some kind of brilliant chessmaster who seized power from his ineffectual puppet Nixon through a "provincial" dupe, McKeithen, and that all of the diplomacy of the Nixon administration was to lull the Russians into a false sense of security — a stunning miscalculation, as Spiro is a dopey, craven opportunist with no complex strategy beyond "let 'em fight" or "show 'em who's boss", and has effectively turned his own presidency over to guys like Rumsfield and Cheney.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_83f43ca9	type	Dystopia Is Hard
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_83f43ca9	comment	Dystopia Is Hard: The main reason why the Lesser Mao's China and his rule fall apart in less than one decade. President Rumsfeld managed to send the recovering American economy into total freefall through his oppressive and ideological policies in only a few years. By the time he's removed from office, the vast majority of Americans have fallen into poverty.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_854601b3	type	Government Procedural
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_854601b3	comment	Government Procedural: A lot of the story explores and dissects the Constitutional system of government, which makes sense, considering the timeline involves the 1972 election creating a constitutional crisis.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: A rare In-Universe example: the US invasion of Cuba was such a disaster, that Nikolai Ryzhkov initially assumed the KGB report in which he learned about was spewing propaganda. He confirms the story with President Mitterand, to his horror.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: The Christian Values party as a whole. When Rumsfeld ends welfare and eliminates workers' rights, they offer food and money to people who have been adversly affected by the administration's policies. They are able to use this goodwill to win the 1988 presidential election. However, they eventually reveal their true colors and create an oppressive theocracy once they're in power.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Word of God states that the Sequel Series is meant to be this to American conservatives' hero-worship of Ronald Reagan, by having a President in The '80s with policies more reminiscent of modern-day Tea Party conservatives (or at least the author's interpretation) than those that Reagan actually professed and pushed while in office. Some commenters have suggested that the entire saga is meant to be a Deconstruction of the common notion that having stronger third parties would be a palliative to some of America's problems. Here, more third parties end up making those problems even worse. The idea of winning the Vietnam War. While South Vietnam does manage to become a prosperous democracy, the victory leads to America, confident in the success of armed intervention, to become increasingly interventionist and bellicose on the world stage.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: When the Lesser Mao nukes his own rebelling troops, and then Wallace nukes with the consent of the USSR his main nuclear facility in response. As of the April 13 update "Let's all go to the cinema", California has seceded from the Union. As of the "Saturday, July 4, 1987" update, the long-awaited invasion of Cuba has begun, and is a complete fiasco. As of the "Rummyhorror" update, it's been two years since Rumsfeld's impeachment, and the USA is under the control of the theocratic Christian Values party. Their oppressive policies have resulted in a civil war, and at least a dozen more states seceding from the union.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8f612013	type	Token Good Teammate
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_8f612013	comment	Token Good Teammate: Vice President Jack Edwards, with Jimmy Carter's help, is the only member of Rumsfeld's administration to see how wrong his policies are. He eventually joins the coup, only to land in jail once it falls apart.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: After Rumsfeld is thrown out of office, the corporations abandon the Republicans and throw their support behind the Christian Values to avoid even the most lenient prosecution for their crimes. When the CV launches their purge, they all end up executed anyway.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_916c9d1b	comment	Mark of Shame: For anyone the CV doesn't execute, they brand them with what they call the Mark of Cain before throwing them in labor camps. If future interviews are anything to go by, the psychological effects of these persist for decades later.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: The Iranian Shah, in a closed discussion with President Wallace, declares "I am Iran!" when the latter urges him to abdicate.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Both the corporations and Christian Values decide that Rumsfeld have nothing more to give them by the late eighties, and plot to remove him at the first opportunity.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Some British voters in 1977 are disgusted with the Edward Heath government's catalogue of catastrophe but are unconvinced about Denis Healey's Labour Party. The result is that the Liberal Party has a massive surge from just nine seats to over fifty. Later on, the more left-wing members of Labour resign from the party to protest the UK's complicity in the nuking of Lop Nor, forming True Labour (later renamed to the Social Democratic Party). For similar reasons, third parties such as the Socialist Workers Party, the African-American Freedom Party (black nationalism a la Malcolm X), the Libertarians, the Christian Values movement (the Religious Right without the association with Reaganomics, siphoning off many former Dixiecrats in the South), and We The People (the New Left as its own political party, broken off from a Democratic Party that's increasingly little more than a center-left rump) become increasingly important in the American political landscape. Rumsfeld and Cheney exploit this to win the 1984 election. One of the modern retrospectives suggests that We The People eventually ceases to be a third option, graduating to major party status after the fall of Rumsfeldia.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: Agnew is not hesitant in the slightest to re-intervene in the Vietnam War. Later on, Rumsfeld begins committing the United States into wars in China, Greece, South Africa, and Cuba.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Jeremiah Denton suffers from this after he learns about the Liberty Battalions' murder of wounded American soldiers, and moves to have Rumsfeld removed from office. He has a bigger one after learning about Rumsfeld's treatment of political dissidents, and how he purposely ignored it for political gain.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Rumsfeld is the closest thing the series has to one. Following the Christian Values coup, Douglas Coe takes the role of a theocratic dictator of the Christian States of America.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Ron Dellums wonders about this in regard to George Wallace. Rumsfeld has been derisively called "America's Lesser Mao" due to the parallels between both men. Additionally, Rumsfeld adopts some of Joseph Stalin's tactics and language, namely putting political dissidents in mental institutions and stating "The Pope? How many divisions does he have anyway?", respectively.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: Rumsfeld and (to a lesser extent) Agnew believe wholeheartedly in this trope. Played straight and turned up to eleven with the Lesser Mao. Zig-zagged with Premier Ryzhkov, who is a strict authoritarian but also brokered a peace treaty between the Republic of China and South Korea, and has made efforts to improve life in the Soviet Union and end the Cold War.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Some posters think the economic, military, and social breakdown of China under Lesser Mao foreshadowed what would happen to America under Donald Rumsfeld. It turns out to be half-right: while America does follow China's example, including the government using nukes on its own people, this is only after Rumsfeld is impeached, superseded by the even more insane Douglas Coe. At one point, Spiro Agnew questions Wally Herger concerning the option of breaking Northern California off to form the State of Jefferson to the ballot, questioning if he's promoting secession. Herger assures him that it's nothing of the sort, that it'll be for the benefit for the people of California and Jefferson. During the Rumsfeld Administration, California is the first state to declare secession.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_9fb2452d	comment	Evil Is Not a Toy: [[spoiler After being warned that the CV can't be trusted, Gerardo Rivera insists that TRW and the other corporations are able to protect themselves. He's proven wrong when the leaders of TRW end up arrested and executed with the rest of Rumsfeld's supports.]]
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Muslim Brotherhood/PJO are an Islamist revolutionary group(s) that commit atrocities everywhere they go.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: Dick Cheney is definitely this, at least initially. Eventually, though, even he begins to suspect that President Rumsfeld's plan for America is insane. After Rumsfeld turns on him in favor of Christian Values for a moment of doubt, Cheney disaffiliates entirely and tries to build ties with the resistance.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: When it's clear that Rumsfeld's policies are destroying America, Haig and other military officers plot to overthrow Rumsfeld and place the more moderate Vice President Edwards. It fails, with horrible consequences for the U.S.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a55454ee	comment	For similar reasons, third parties such as the Socialist Workers Party, the African-American Freedom Party (black nationalism a la Malcolm X), the Libertarians, the Christian Values movement (the Religious Right without the association with Reaganomics, siphoning off many former Dixiecrats in the South), and We The People (the New Left as its own political party, broken off from a Democratic Party that's increasingly little more than a center-left rump) become increasingly important in the American political landscape. Rumsfeld and Cheney exploit this to win the 1984 election.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: George Wallace. His is able to shake off his segregationist past and use his paralysis as a symbol that he understands human suffering. He even becomes president of the United States in 1976. This becomes deconstructed later on, as Wallace is unable to use his brand of politics to create a meaningful national agenda, to the point of losing support among liberal Democrats, and the stress of public life takes a toll on Wallace's already fragile health. It is reconstructed later on, however. After a period of physical training, he returns to his old turf as Governor of Alabama to resist the actual federal tyranny of Donald Rumsfeld.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: The Christian Values leaders Tim LaHaye, Douglas Coe and (to a lesser extent) Pat Robertson, consider themselves to be absolutely righteous and everyone opposing or disagreeing with them to be immoral, including other Christians like the Catholic Jeremiah Denton. It gets upped to eleven once they turn the USA into a theocracy following Rumsfeld's impeachment, with everyone and anyone resisting their oppressive rule being branded a satanist, and have no qualms against using WMDs against them, including nukes. The members of We the People also act this way to a certain extent. One of the reasons Rumsfeld was able stay for another term is that they refused to form a coalition with the Democrats, believing them to be just a collection of sham politicians, with Ralph Nader thinking the Democrats are also aligned with Rumsfeldia's corporate network, dividing the liberal vote in the process. President Rumsfeld suffers from this badly. In his eyes, anyone who doesn't conform to his views is a Dirty Communist and a threat to America who must be gotten rid of. Not even loyal conservatives like Barry Goldwater or George H.W. Bush are exempt.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: It's the Soviet Union that wins the Cold War, having successfully reformed its system in the '70s and '80s. It pulls Western Europe into its economic orbit (and makes scads of cash) by selling them natural gas and petroleum at cut-rate prices, and domestically, it engages in a form of "MBA communism" reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping's reforms of OTL's China, cutting back excessive military spending, allowing more free enterprise and trade, and requiring more accountability from state-owned businesses. Meanwhile, the US under Rumsfeld experiences much the same economic, domestic, and military pressures that ultimately did in OTL's USSR, with foreign adventurism and various wonder weapons bloating the defense budget, an aggressive ideological pursuit of the free market at all costs doing severe structural damage to the economy and standards of living, and the two-party system under increasing strain from both sides. The parallels get even stronger in Rumsfeld's second term, with California and Hawaii seceding from the Union, several other state governments openly defying the will of Washington, and NATO dissolving as Western Europe, unable to trust an America that's increasingly becoming a rogue state, goes it alone and establishes a detente with the USSR.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: China under the Lesser Mao is a truly ghoulish hellscape, with famines, cultural destruction, and purges galore. The USSR downplays this under Ryzkhov's reign, still being a one-party state with purges, but with some free enterprise to spruce up the economy.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_aa8dcc21	comment	TRW, while a far milder and more realistic example than most examples of this trope, is becoming something like a MegaCorp, and one closely affiliated with the Rumsfeld Administration at that. By the mid-1980s, they feel comfortable with threatening Dick Cheney to his face, and he backs down. Deconstructed in the late '80s, when Rumsfeld has more-or-less abolished every legal standard for private businesses. TRW ends up having to deal with all the tin tyrants and outright criminals that run rampant in the newly "free" market, hurting both their efficacy and their international reputation. This becomes such a problem they end up trying to sway Rumsfeld towards a more (if minimally) regulated economy.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ac1e30d8	comment	Red Scare: President Agnew's policies are predicated on the idea that the world still works like it did in the McCarthyite 1950s. President Rumsfeld's foreign policy operates on the same principle, except much more extreme, so far as to consider democratically elected leftist governments such as FranÃ§ois Mitterrand's Socialists in France and Enrico Berlinguer's Communists in Italy as fellow travelers of Moscow. In fact, it's so extreme that Western Europe by 1984 has broken from NATO entirely and created a third bloc, loosely affiliated with the Eastern bloc.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ryzhkov after learning about the military disaster in Cuba. He recognizes that Rumsfeld's regime is on the verge of collapse, but he's probably very afraid of the fallout.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: George Wallace.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: A large theme of the timeline is the fall of the two-party system in the US, desired by many people in real life, which causes almost all of the timeline's suffering in one way or another. Rumsfeld is supported at first by American corporations who are attracted to his economic agenda. As time goes on, however, they eventually begin to realize that a completely unregulated economy is far more chaotic and hard to navigate than they initially realized. As a result, they ultimately end up supporting the coup that finally removes Rumsfeld from power.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Many right-wingers from Nixon to Reagan to Tom Clancy are utterly disgusted and horrified by Rumsfeld's America. Scarily enough, despite almost being a Card-Carrying Villain far past the Moral Event Horizon, even President Rumsfeld is creeped out by the far-right Christian fanatic he has employed in his administration: Tim LaHaye, the author of the Left Behind series. However, he eventually warms up to LaHaye and has him replace Cheney as Chief of Staff. Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov is, despite his own authoritarian positions, deeply disturbed by the madness of Rumsfeld, especially when he informs Ryzhkov in so many words that he knows the USSR kidnapped Richard Nixon, and that he sees it acceptable for them to execute a former US President if they want to, because it will help Rumsfeld garner domestic political support in the wake of his death. Ryzhkov, who was ignorant of and afterwards opposed to the kidnapping for obvious reasons, sees this as beyond the pale and has Nixon released unharmed. Several big businesses and corporations are starting to think Rumsfeld's anarcho-capitalism has gone too far. Even the until-then sinister CEO of TRW is left confused and distressed by Rumsfeld's explosive reaction to being informed that he doesn't really want any more deregulation. The Christian Values Party also grows increasingly uncomfortable with Rumsfeld's obsession with capitalism, feeling it has overtaken his commitment to Christianity. Many Republican governors were outraged when Rumsfeld impeached the Supreme Court for refusing to unseat Pete McCloskey in favor of his handpicked stooge. It even prompted Spiro Agnew to sign a nullification clause with other northeastern governors. In the "Rummyhorror" updatem, it is shown that even the Ku Klux Klan is horrified by the nightmarish repression and savagery of the Christian Values theocracy, so much so that it is willing to join forces with the Black Panthers and the Jewish Defence Militia against it.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Rumsfeld's invasion of Cuba. Highlights include a missile from an F-16 locking onto the plane that fired it, a rifle that jams even worse than the Vietnam-era M16, and body armor being utterly useless.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: Spiro Agnew is fond of using this, most commonly describing his political enemies as "the nattering nabobs of negativity". Agnew was famous for doing this in Real Life as well.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b6c94487	comment	Invaded States of America: After Rumsfeld is deposed, Canada occupies Buffalo; Sault Saint-Marie, Michigan; the Columbia River basin and parts of northern Maine as part of a security buffer. Of course, given what the country's devolved into, the people welcome them as liberators. Likewise, Cuba invades Southern Florida, but their advance is stopped once the CSA turns most of the state into a nuclear wasteland.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b7396aae	comment	Talk Show: Spiro Agnew gets one after his impeachment. He gets high ratings, even though he seems to spend most of the time ranting about "the ludicrous liberals"; he's compared on the boards to Glenn Beck without a capacity for Self-Deprecation. (This could've actually happened; in 1971, Nixon and Haldeman were exploring the possibility of getting Agnew his very own conservative-funded TV network, just to get him out of their way).
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_b739b613	comment	Elvis Lives: Elvis survives the heart attack that killed him in 1977 and, claiming to have seen God, becomes a Born-Again Christian.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_bb18a227	comment	The Lesser Mao does anything to maintain power, including massive purges that kill millions, and even dropping an atomic bomb on a rebelling city. He cares about nobody except himself, believes himself to be smarter than everyone around him, regularly uses drugs near the end of his rule, turns his country into a Khmer Rouge-style hellhole, and turns China into a massive producer of heroin largely to spite the West and for his own monetary gain.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The "Democrat Killer" claims that his actions are guided by God, eventually shoots and injures the Democratic nominee for Vice-President in 1976 and turns out to be Mark David Chapman.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Agnew shows signs of supreme overconfidence from the very moment he gains prominence by "electing" himself. When he meets with Nixon just before taking office as acting President, he inappropriately calls him "Dick" (a nickname Nixon reserved for only close friends), announces that he's taking only one advisor in Donald Rumsfeld (despite Nixon's warnings that his administration will be dominated by Rumsfeld's agenda), and says that if Russia and China are duking it out, America'll have no trouble focusing on the NVA — maybe, he hopes, China will even have an uprising and go democratic if they lose. Nixon, a Realpolitik man to the core, is shaken and terrified. (This is Truth in Television; despite Agnew's public overtures of intellectualism, fostered by William Safire's flowery speechwriting, he was privately considered very inept in both domestic and -- especially -- foreign matters, and Nixon had frozen him out from almost all direct decision-making by 1970.) During a later conversation with George H.W. Bush where Agnew discusses his ambitions in greater detail, a horrified Bush realizes just how out of his depth he is; his entire frame of reference for governing is the shady, sometimes outright crooked backroom deals that happen at the local or state level — in other words, one man runs everything, never backs down or compromises, and throws his weight around until the other guy breaks. Combined with his embrace of "Great Man" ideology and enthusiasm for Teddy Roosevelt-style imperialist policing, it makes nuclear war almost inevitable.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_bdd3fbbc	comment	Coca-Pepsi, Inc.: Marvel Comics, having gone bankrupt at the end of The '70s, has been bought by DC Comics and the two are to merge their universes. In OTL, Marvel was kept afloat by its Star Wars comics — in Gumbo, Star Wars only exists as an obscure animated film, and though Marvel still produces comics based on it, they're not popular enough to save it.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c09c2921	comment	Dystopian Edict: The Lesser Mao bans literacy at one point.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c10da874	comment	Also, ironically through President Agnew blundering back into the Vietnam War and President Gavin being forced to send more troops to shore up their position, the US has more or less won the war, albeit at a bloody cost. Unfortunately, this leaves the US with the exact opposite of the anti-war "Vietnam syndrome" that afflicted it in The '80s; instead, it gets a bad case of victory disease that sees it stumbling into conflicts in Syria, Cyprus, China, West Africa, South Africa, Greece...
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: South Africa under the dictatorship of General Malan is rapidly sliding into this, practically becoming The Draka. Not only is it using weapons of mass destruction, up to and including dirty bombs, against its enemies in the rest of southern Africa, but under the influence of Afrikaner nationalists like Eugene Terre'Blanche, it's starting to discriminate against non-Afrikaner whites (particularly the Rhodesian refugees) on top of the existing apartheid system. It's been stated, in updates written from the perspective of the future, that they will break out the nukes before it's all over. President Rumsfeld. If there was any doubt, by the late 1980s, he's started organizing "Liberty Battalions", which are basically an American SS/SA — up to staging book burnings of "anti-American"/"anti-free market" material. President Robertson as well, as he starts to open up concentration camps, where various "heretics" — like homosexuals, drug addicts, prostitutes and so on — are sent to forced labour, while also being brainwashed into accepting the CV's version of Christianity. Israel. See Irony above.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c271fe08	comment	Machiavelli Was Wrong: The Lesser Mao's horrible mismanagement and frequent purges eventually drives many of his deprived soldiers to rebel against him. When the Lesser Mao puts down that rebellion with a nuclear bomb, this leads to the whole world rallying against him. When his excesses trigger an invasion by outside powers, his armies, government, and authority completely disintegrate. The crimes of the Christian Values Party triggers rebellion by the Northeastern states and the Libertarian West, secession by states like Texas, and even drives other extremists like the Ku Klux Klan into opposing the Christian Values.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c335b9ec	comment	Israel. See Irony above.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After months of wrangling, Nixon decides to withdraw for the good of the country and allow McKeithen to become President. Then McKeithen dies in a plane crash. Also, ironically through President Agnew blundering back into the Vietnam War and President Gavin being forced to send more troops to shore up their position, the US has more or less won the war, albeit at a bloody cost. Unfortunately, this leaves the US with the exact opposite of the anti-war "Vietnam syndrome" that afflicted it in The '80s; instead, it gets a bad case of victory disease that sees it stumbling into conflicts in Syria, Cyprus, China, West Africa, South Africa, Greece... One good thing that has come out of the political chaos is a limit on campaign funding and advertising, which will at least prevent some of the excesses that American politics has reached today in OTL. A retroactive one in the form of the modern-day political retrospectives, which all but confirm the partial recovery of China and India's successor states and the fall of Rumsfeldia, with only Newt Gingrich's having any sympathy for what Rumsfeld and Cheney did. The rub is that back in the active flow of the timeline, things just keep getting worse, and worse, and worse, to the point that these eventual victories may be rendered impotent by unaddressed context. The coup attempt against Rumsfeld is proceeding smoothly to execution, only for Sarah Heath to betray them all at the last moment, having been a devoted Christian Values mole from the beginning. Rumsfeld is finally deposed, and Denton decides to serve out the remainder of his term and work with the remaining moderate political forces to restore confidence. However, the Christian Values party is able to win the 1988 election thanks to the support they provided to Americans hurt by Rumsfeld's policies. Once they're in power, they create an oppressive theocracy which all but destroys the USA by 1990.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c4240537	comment	Officially broken as of the Kwangzi incident, in which the Lesser Mao nuked his own troops in order to put down a mutiny. (The fact that this doesn't even come close to the Lesser Mao's Moral Event Horizon speaks volumes about his rule over China.) This leads the US, in an effort to take down the Lesser Mao, to nuke the Chinese atomic research facility at Lop Nur with the Soviets' blessing. It's also been stated that South Africa will eventually resort to nuclear weapons in order to stave off collapse (they're already using dirty bombs and other WMDs), and that Japan and Taiwan are working on a joint nuclear weapons project out of fear of China. (It's top secret, of course; many Japanese still remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.)
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c6c5ce4	type	Bedlam House
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c6c5ce4	comment	President Rumsfeld is the king of this trope however as he has no qualms about calling any Republican going against his anarcho-capitalist stances a communist and going so far as to have them removed from office and committed to a Gulag-esque Bedlam House.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the Cuban Invasion, there's a mention of an incredibly useless M-20 assault rifle. On November 7, 1987, Pete Tyler dies in a traffic accident. The rise of the Christian States of America takes several cues from the Republic of Gilead.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c91bf297	type	Iron Lady
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_c91bf297	comment	Iron Lady: Rhodesian Prime Minister Ina Bursey, who turns the Rhodesian Bush War into a much larger conflict embroiling the entire southern cone of Africa. She gets called "the Iron Bottomed Lady" for her intransigence. The Trope Namer herself sees her political career shot after her reaction to an IRA attempt on her life accidentally gets a mother and her child killed.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Word of God states that the Sequel Series is meant to be this to American conservatives' hero-worship of Ronald Reagan, by having a President in The '80s with policies more reminiscent of modern-day Tea Party conservatives (or at least the author's interpretation) than those that Reagan actually professed and pushed while in office.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Nixon, seriously unraveling under the stress of the election debacle and growing more paranoid by the day, mentions to Kissinger while staring into space that they could end the Vietnam War by using a nuke to obliterate the city of Hanoi; later, he orders Defense Sec. Melvin Laird to prepare "at last half a dozen" of their bombs held at Okinawa for B-52 transport, so they can knock out Hanoi and maybe "a Chinese target just across the border" that they can claim was by accident. Kissinger is frightened and tries to gently dissuade Nixon, while Laird is outright terrified and doesn't pass the order on because he later tries to rationalize it as Dick joking or being drunk. In both cases, Nixon quietly drops the matter and doesn't acknowledge it afterward. Officially broken as of the Kwangzi incident, in which the Lesser Mao nuked his own troops in order to put down a mutiny. (The fact that this doesn't even come close to the Lesser Mao's Moral Event Horizon speaks volumes about his rule over China.) This leads the US, in an effort to take down the Lesser Mao, to nuke the Chinese atomic research facility at Lop Nur with the Soviets' blessing. It's also been stated that South Africa will eventually resort to nuclear weapons in order to stave off collapse (they're already using dirty bombs and other WMDs), and that Japan and Taiwan are working on a joint nuclear weapons project out of fear of China. (It's top secret, of course; many Japanese still remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.) Once the Christian Values party turns the USA into a theocracy, they have absolutely no reservations about breaking out the nukes, especially since they're the only thing standing between them and certain defeat at the hands of the rebels and/or an intervention from Europe.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_cde51255	comment	Antagonist Title: Rumsfeldia refers to Donald Rumsfeld, the main antagonist of the story.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d366883d	comment	Mortality Phobia: Agnew believes that the Soviets suffer from this because they are atheists who reject the idea of an afterlife, and he claims that their fear of death means they won't respond to his belligerence towards them with war.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: By pardoning himself using his Presidential powers, Spiro Agnew lays the foundations for his own impeachment, as, according to U.S. law, a federal pardon, even though it absolves him of being punished for the crime, is still an admission of guilt. This allows for a Congress fed up with his belligerence and ignorance to impeach him for the very crimes he thought he had gotten away with and remove him from office. Rumsfeld had used the mental health system as a means of silencing dissidents, having them shipped to Bedlam Houses on the grounds that they were mentally unfit and had suffered a 'nervous breakdown'. During his impeachment proceedings, his opponents use this charge against him, claiming that he himself had suffered a 'nervous breakdown' and was therefore unfit to carry out the duties of the Presidency. It culminates in him being dragged off to one of the same mental hospitals that he had locked so many of his opponents in. Many of Rumsfeld's supporters throw their support behind Christian Values after Rumsfeld is removed from office, only for the CV to turn on them.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d52d28b6	comment	President Rumsfeld. If there was any doubt, by the late 1980s, he's started organizing "Liberty Battalions", which are basically an American SS/SA — up to staging book burnings of "anti-American"/"anti-free market" material.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d965507b	type	Tragic Mistake
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_d965507b	comment	Tragic Mistake: Jesse Jackson's 1984 WTP run for office is considered to be this In-Universe, since it divided the liberal vote, allowing Rumsfeld to stay in for a second term.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: President James Gavin, who tries to walk a moderate line, and is willing to solve the foreign policy crises caused largely by Spiro Agnew. Ngo Quang Troung, a competent ARVN general who becomes South Vietnam's first democratically elected President. Pham Van Dong, the Prime Minister of North Vietnam, who despite being a Communist dictator, is far less ideological than his Soviet backers, and is willing to team up with South Vietnam and, by extension, America to fight back against the Lesser Mao. Nikolai Ryzhkov, who despite being an authoritarian, is trying to bring prosperity to the Soviet Union and end the Cold War, and tries to shut up the hardline generals who want to fight a war with the West. Pete McCloksey, a former Republican congressman, who rejects the increasing polarization of both parties, becoming the Governor of California on an independent ticket, and becomes one of the most powerful resistors of Rumsfeldia and later the Christian States of America. Jeremiah Denton who once, he gains the Presidency, tries to rebuild America from the years of Rumsfeld's rule. Unfortunately, his own CV allies resist his attempts at reform.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The Capitol Building, along with the Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson monuments, have all been destroyed by the Christian Values Party. Statues of Christ the Warrior and Douglas Coe have taken their place.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ddf56e0a	type	Amoral Afrikaner
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ddf56e0a	comment	Amoral Afrikaner: Magnus Malan.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Because of the Lesser Mao turning his country into one giant poppy farm, he creates a serious heroin epidemic across America. His own abuse contributed to his descent into madness. The Drug War becomes even worse, with Governor John Rarick making heroin addiction worthy of a life sentence.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Towards the tail end of Rumsfeld's second term as POTUS, there are several different parties attempting to take him down: the Carter/Dellums/Clinton resistance, the US Army General Dorman and The Christian Values Party/TRW alliance. The last one ultimately comes out on top.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e03070b7	type	Dystopia Justifies the Means
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e03070b7	comment	Dystopia Justifies the Means: Rumsfeldia and the Christian States of America were both political forces that ripped apart constitutional rights and constitutional checks on their power, so they could create a corporate-authoritarian state and a violent theocracy, respectively.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: President Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are way, way worse than their OTL counterparts. Mao's nephew in real life was a hardliner during the Cultural Revolution era, but was arrested following its end, and after spending some years in prison, came out as a humble and low-key individual with little political desires, and worked as a technician. The Lesser Mao however, is a mad tyrant that makes Pol Pot look like a paragon of humane leadership. An in-universe example happens in the historical films produced by Hollywood at Rumsfeld's direction. These films portray historical enemies of America as being far worse than they actually were, while portraying the Americans as [[Historical Hero Upgrade completely noble and incorruptible.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Some of the worst villains in the series are people who are relatively unknown in OTL. Standout examples are the Lesser Mao, Douglass Coe, and Magnus Malan.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: Jimmy Carter becomes this for Jack Edwards, and is able to make the man see how horrific Rumsfeld's policies are.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_e7f67516	comment	Point of Divergence: This whole crazy TL all started when John Julian McKeithen got the Democratic nomination instead of McGovern — and it was all ultimately for nothing, as McKeithen dies in a plane crash in 1973, and right after Nixon conceded to him so he could take the Presidency away from the increasingly-unhinged Agnew, no less.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_eb04f8d5	type	Fascist, but Inefficient
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Rumsfeld's dictatorial and corporatist regime, from driving away innovators by violating patent rights and giving them to TRW, to the complete failure of the Cuba invasion.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Tim LaHaye plots to get rid of Rumsfeld and get the Christian Values Party in charge.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The Christian Values Party in America (which Rumsfeld is increasingly relying on for support) and the PJO/Muslim Brotherhood.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f8e010ce	type	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The Lesser Mao is such a depraved maniac, he can't help but see traitors everywhere he looks. When Western Europe agrees to a detente with the Soviet Union, Rumsfeld thinks that they've just sold out to communism.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f93f10e	type	Can't Stop The Signal
Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f93f10e	comment	One shows up against President Rumsfeld, led by Jimmy Carter, Ron Dellums, and Bill Clinton. Other members include Bill Gates, the mastermind behind Liberty Spark.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_f98356f	comment	Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: The Liberty Battalions are a good example of what happens when such groups are actually sanctioned by the government.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_fb01ee16	comment	Cyberpunk: The sequel is increasingly this politically, if not technologically.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: The Rumsfeld administration's economic policy is built on this trope, thanks to their fanatical devotion to capitalism. At one point they quite literally slash wages in half across the board and replace the missing 1/2 with "investment certificates". Surely enough, by the time Rumsfeld is removed from office, living standards in the United States have collapsed to the point that the average lifespan has gone down by 12 years.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil is Petty: Donald Rumsfeld, good lord. At one point, Rumsfeld conspires to turn space into a junkyard, just so the Russians can't travel there.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Constantly. For example... George W. Bush is a fighter pilot held in a North Vietnamese prison camp (having been unable to avoid the draft) and has, since his release following the end of the Vietnam War, become an actor; his brother Jeb followed him into the Air Force. At the same time, Al Gore is an embedded journalist in Syria who is captured by the regime there and held in similar circumstances. Mikhail Gorbachev appears in 1972 as a middle-aged CPCC apparatchik, who is sent on a diplomatic mission to provide "technical assistance" to the North Vietnamese government; en route back to the USSR through China, he is killed in a plane crash which the Soviets refuse to recognize as a glitch, both because they cannot admit Soviet planes are anything less than perfect and because they need access to the wreckage. The subsequent investigation by the Chinese sparks an incident between the two countries when it reveals that Gorbachev was brokering a smuggled weapons deal with the NVA. This sets in motion a chain of events that puts the Lesser Mao in power and runs China into the ground. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham serve as interns in one of the legal cases surrounding the disputed 1972 election, and Clinton is later posted as a legal officer in the army to Syria. His experiences there encourage him to run (successfully) for Congress... as a Republican. He eventually tries to mount a challenge to Rumsfeld in the '84 Republican primaries, until Rumsfeld goes after him and he is forced to forced to go underground. David Petraeus is a lieutenant who leads a stand against Syrian insurgents, which ends up killing Private Walter B. Willis. Barack Obama has not featured in person, but he is the author of some of the books quoted in the timeline and is apparently a history professor, as is Newt Gingrich, whose own works obviously offer the opposing slant on certain topics. In the sequel, he serves as a young political dissident, and helps smuggle Jimmy Carter out of Washington after the coup against Rumsfeld fails. Dan Quayle is an NCO in Vietnam who earns commendations as a war hero and subsequently becomes the face of a campaign highlighting the poor treatment of soldiers and veterans. Kelsey Grammer enters politics instead of acting, becoming a junior District Attorney. Vladimir Putin is present as the political student of Premier Suslov during his time as an officer, and is the one to council and release Richard Nixon from captivity later on. Sarah Palin is apparently involved in a coup against Rumsfeld... until she betrays them all to Rumsfeld, having been a Christian Values infiltrator all along. 1st Lieutenant Nick Coppola and Lance Corporal James Todd "LJ" Smith are seen fighting in the Cuban invasion, with Coppola and LJ's odds being against them. OTL New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson is shown as being a major figure in the Libertarian Party.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ff7b34f9	comment	Another realistic variation of this trope is the Hughes Network, a massive media network that is a mix of this and Strawman News Media. With a worse 1970s economy bankrupting many media networks, Howard Hughes buys them to create an earlier version of Fox News. One of their programs is a Talk Show hosted by Spiro Agnew. Under Rumsfeldia, they become a Propaganda Machine for the Rumsfeld regime, and are able to take over ABC, NBC, and CNN.
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Fear, Loathing and Gumbo on the Campaign Trail '72 / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Drew did his research on this timeline, and it shows. Big time.
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